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The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra

Author : Tony Page
Publisher : F Lepine Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780981061320
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra written by Tony Page and published by F Lepine Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sutra is the study of what can be called "Nirvana Sutra Buddhism" or "Tathagatagarbha Buddhism". It is a very positive, balanced, faith-promoting and spiritually affirmative manifestation of Buddhism, which recognises the hidden reality of the unconditioned, egoless Buddha-Self in all beings. That Self of the Buddha is a mystery, beyond the reach and grasp of the samsaric intellect: while the Buddha-Self is real, it is certainly not comparable to our worldly, selfish self (ego) and cannot truly be captured within the net of words or concepts. Yet it is the only enduring Truth that can ever be found. This sutra leads us to the Ultimate Truth and indicate the Path to tread for an Awakening into Reality's presence, which is all-pervading and eternal. That eternally present Truth is the sole genuine Reality."You, monks, should not thus cultivate the notion of impermanence, suffering and non-Self, the notion of impurity and so forth, deeming them to be the true meaning of the Dharma, as those people searching in a pool for a radiant gem did, each thinking that bits of brick, stones, grass and gravel were the jewel. You should train yourselves well in efficacious means. In every situation, constantly meditate upon the idea of the Self, the idea of the Eternal, the Bliss, and the Pure ... Those who, desirous of attaining Reality, meditatatively cultivate these ideas, namely, the ideas of the Self, the Eternal, the Bliss, and the Pure, will skilfully bring forth the jewel, just like that wise person who obtained the genuine, priceless gem, rather than worthless detritus misperceived as the real thing."- The Buddha, Chapter Three, The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra

Nirvana Sutra

Author : Kosho Yamamoto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517631727
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Nirvana Sutra written by Kosho Yamamoto and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Dharmakshema version of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra. This Sutra is the last will and testament of Buddha Shakyamuni and is considered the highest Mahayana Buddhist Sutra. This particular Book is unique in that the passages are numbered making it easier for people to find verses of importance.

The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana-sutra

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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The Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra

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ISBN 13 : 9781903036105
Total Pages : pages
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Buddha Nature Sutras

Author : Paul Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781499536669
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Buddha Nature Sutras written by Paul Reid and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the Nirvana Sutra, the Srimaladevi Sutra and the Infinite Life Sutra which are all very important Mahayana holy scriptures. This book is a must have if you are interested in understanding what the Buddha Nature is in the Buddha's own words.

Shaping the Lotus Sutra

Author : Eugene Yuejin Wang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295984629
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Lotus Sutra written by Eugene Yuejin Wang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lotus Sutra has been the most widely read and most revered Buddhist scripture in East Asia since its translation in the third century. The miracles and parables in the "king of sutras" inspired a variety of images in China, in particular the sweeping compositions known as transformation tableaux that developed between the seventh and ninth centuries. Surviving examples in murals painted on cave walls or carved in relief on Buddhist monuments depict celestial journeys, bodily metamorphoses, cycles of rebirth, and the achievement of nirvana. Yet the cosmos revealed in these tableaux is strikingly different from that found in the text of the sutra. Shaping the Lotus Sutra explores this visual world. Challenging long-held assumptions about Buddhist art, Eugene Wang treats it as a window to an animated and spirited world. Rather than focus on individual murals as isolated compositions, Wang views the entire body of pictures adorning a cave shrine or a pagoda as a visual mapping of an imaginary topography that encompasses different temporal and spatial domains. He demonstrates that the text of the Lotus Sutra does not fully explain the pictures and that a picture, or a series of them, constitutes its own "text." In exploring how religious pictures sublimate cultural aspirations, he shows that they can serve both political and religious agendas and that different social forces can co-exist within the same visual program. These pictures inspired meditative journeys through sophisticated formal devices such as mirroring, mapping, and spatial programming - analytical categories newly identified by Wang. The book examines murals in cave shrines at Binglingsi and Dunhuang in northwestern China and relief sculptures in the grottoes of Yungang in Shanxi, on stelae from Sichuan, and on the Dragon-and-Tiger pagoda in Shandong, among other sites. By tracing formal impulses in medieval Chinese picture-making, such as topographic mapping and pictorial illusionism, the author pieces together a wide range of visual evidence and textual sources to reconstruct the medieval Chinese cognitive style and mental world. The book is ultimately a history of the Chinese imagination. Read an interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/cinematalk/cinematalk-interview-with-professor-eugene-wang-on-chinese-art-and-film/

The Flower Ornament Scripture

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824094
Total Pages : 1656 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Flower Ornament Scripture written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1993-10-12 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition contains Thomas Cleary's definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a glossary, and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, "Entry into the Realm of Reality."

Probing the Sutras

Author : Guy Gibbon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666718815
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Probing the Sutras written by Guy Gibbon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact summary like Probing the Sutras has been sorely needed for some time, as more and more Westerners have dipped into meditation without any understanding of its predominantly Buddhist scriptural underpinning. This concise, well-informed introduction to the history and contents of eleven seminal Buddhist sutras also provides suggestions for reflection, meditation, and practical applications related to the key teachings of each scripture. Readers of Probing the Sutras will be able to develop a framework for understanding Buddhist doctrines—and see the unique pearls of wisdom contained within each sutra.

The Three Pure Land Sutras

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Publisher : BDK America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Pure Land Sutras written by and published by BDK America. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger sutra on Amitāyus (Taishō volume 12, number 360) -- The sutra on contemplation of Amitāyus (Taishō volume 12, number 365) -- The smaller sutra on Amitāyus (Taishō volume 12, number 366).

Selected Writings of Nichiren

Author : Nichiren
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231072601
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings of Nichiren written by Nichiren and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Robert E. Morrell, Washington University

Dictionary of Buddhism

Author : Soka Gakkai
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120833341
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Buddhism written by Soka Gakkai and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone reading English translations of Buddhist texts will encounter a host of names, terms, and phrases whose meanings are not clear even though they appear in English. Buddhism is famous for its specialized terminology and translation alone may not communicate its full meaning. East Asian Buddhist diction is layered with several languages -Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Japanese -and the only way to make one's way through this linguistic maze without getting lost is with the aid of a good dictionary. The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism, a revised and expanded version of A Dictionary of Buddhist Terms and Concepts (1983), is a welcome addition that serves this purpose. Written clearly for the general reader, the Dictionary contains over 2,700 entries. While it is designed primarily for use with the Soka Gakkai's translations of Nichiren's works, the Dictionary contains a wealth of terms found in all other traditions of Buddhism. Definitions are given for technical terms, historical figures, doctrinal texts, institutions, and place names. The entries provide complete cross-references so that readers may know and further pursue meanings of term equivalents as rendered in other ways or languages. Ten appendixes provide maps and world lists that enable the reader to find terms in English, Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, or Japanese. Like all Buddhist masters, Nichiren presented his particular message in the wider context of other Buddhist teachings and practices. To know the particular, one must also understand the general context, and the Dictionary, in addressing both levels, provides essential knowledge not only for students of Nichiren Buddhism but for anyone reading Buddhist texts.

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Author : Soka Gakkai
Publisher : Middleway Press
ISBN 13 : 1946635898
Total Pages : 1567 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin written by Soka Gakkai and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 1567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative translation of 172 of Nichiren's writings presented in chronological order. The collection includes Nichiren's five major works as well as other treatises setting forth his doctrine, writings remonstrating with government officials, and letters offering advice, encouragement, or consolation to believers. The translations are based on those of Burton Watson, formerly of Columbia University and an award-winning translator of Chinese and Japanese literature. Edited by the Soka Gakkai's Gosho Translation Committee, these are the translations used by English-speaking Soka Gakkai members the world over.

The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570623481
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen written by Thomas Cleary and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hui-neng (638–713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar of the fact that neither education nor social background has any bearing on the attainment of enlightenment. This collection of his talks, also known as the Platform or Altar Sutra, is the only Zen record of its kind to be generally honored with the appellation sutra, or scripture. The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra—in its very first published English translation ever.

Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Author : Dalai Lama
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614295557
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature written by Dalai Lama and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature takes up centrally important premises of Buddhism: the unsatisfactoriness (duhkha) of cyclic existence (samsara), the determination to be free of cyclic existence, and the mind as the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara and the bliss of nirvana. This volume shows us how to purify our minds and cultivate awakened qualities. Knowledge of buddha nature reveals and reconciles the paradox of how the mind can be the basis for both the extreme duhkha of samsara (the unpurified mind) and the bliss and fulfillment of nirvana (the purified mind). To illustrate this, Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature first takes readers through Buddhist thought on the self, the Four Noble Truths, and their sixteen attributes. Then, the Dalai Lama explains afflictions, their arising and antidotes, followed by an examination of karma and cyclic existence and, finally, a deep and thorough elucidation of buddha nature. This is the third volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and comprehensive series on the stages of the Buddhist path, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion. Volume 1, Approaching the Buddhist Path, contained introductory material that sets the context for Buddhist practice. Volume 2, The Foundation of Buddhist Practice, describes the important teachings that help us establish a flourishing Dharma practice. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature can be read as the logical next step in this series or enjoyed on its own.

Nichiren Gosho - Book Four

Author : Sylvain Chamberlain-Nyudo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329945972
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Nichiren Gosho - Book Four written by Sylvain Chamberlain-Nyudo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clarified and corrected Western translation -by Sifu Sylvain Chamberlain- of sacred Asian texts written by Nichiren Shonin to his followers and contemporaries. All Western idiomatic translations have been replaced with much more accurate words reflecting the true conceptual knowledge of the Buddha's teachings and scholarship of Eastern thought.

The Deathbed Sutra of the Buddha

Author : George C. Adams, Jr.
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782796118
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Deathbed Sutra of the Buddha written by George C. Adams, Jr. and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if, on the final night of his earthly existence, the Buddha experienced a second Enlightenment, leading him to radically revise his teachings about the self, the world, and spiritual fulfillment? And what if that final teaching, lost for over 2000 years, was rediscovered? "The Deathbed Sutra of the Buddha" purports to offer that final conversation, part teaching and part confession, between the Buddha and his trusted attendant, Ananda. Sometimes touching, sometimes shocking, and sure to spark controversy everywhere, The Deathbed Sutra forces Buddhists and scholars of Buddhism to seriously re-evaluate fundamental aspects of the tradition. Regardless of how readers assess this work - as a hoax or as a legitimate lost teaching of the Enlightened One - they will find its content to be a serious challenge to long-held positions about the nature of the self, the nature of reality, and the path to enlightenment. This short work will be a must read for anyone with a serious interest in the teachings of the Buddha.

Probing the Sutras

Author : Guy Gibbon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666718831
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Probing the Sutras written by Guy Gibbon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact summary like Probing the Sutras has been sorely needed for some time, as more and more Westerners have dipped into meditation without any understanding of its predominantly Buddhist scriptural underpinning. This concise, well-informed introduction to the history and contents of eleven seminal Buddhist sutras also provides suggestions for reflection, meditation, and practical applications related to the key teachings of each scripture. Readers of Probing the Sutras will be able to develop a framework for understanding Buddhist doctrines--and see the unique pearls of wisdom contained within each sutra.